{"id":211131,"date":"2025-12-30T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211131\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:00:12","slug":"chinas-labubu-kpop-demon-hunters-top-asias-consumer-trends-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211131\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Labubu, KPop Demon Hunters top Asia&#8217;s consumer trends in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/consumer\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Globally popular Chinese character became source of national pride<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251224N Labubu\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The success of Labubu, a Chinese product, overseas helped fuel demand in China out of a sense of pride. (Photo by Tomoko Wakasugi)<\/p>\n<p>TOMOKO WAKASUGI, KENSAKU IHARA and NAMI MATSUURA<\/p>\n<p>December 30, 2025 12:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SHANGHAI\/HONG KONG\/SEOUL &#8212; A roundup of 2025 consumer trends in Asia reveals that the key word was &#8220;characters,&#8221; with goods related to Labubu, &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters&#8221; and various Japanese figures garnering attention at home and around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer Globally popular Chinese character became source of national pride The success of Labubu, a Chinese product, overseas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9342,24454,59329,2096,31128,146,117663,85,46,716,6839,409,16433,2402],"class_list":["post-211131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-9342","tag-asias","tag-chinas","tag-consumer","tag-demon","tag-entertainment","tag-hunters","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kpop","tag-labubu","tag-music","tag-top","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}